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The Shadow netWorkspace project seeks to bring the benefits of advancing internet-based technology and network services to bear on the work of improving teaching, learning and schooling. Schools with access to the Internet are enriched by its many resources. School improvement, however, will come from changing what teachers and students do, not simply what they have access to. Schools need to be places of collaboration, communication, and representation, and places in which parents and community members cooperate with teachers to support children and their learning. Network applications and services are tools to support new forms of teaching and learning in schools.
Our goal is to build and deliver a common platform of integrated network applications that is readily available and usable by every teacher and student in the world. Our system should help educators bring their dreams of active and appropriate education to every child. Further we seek to build a community of educators and developers that sustain and advance this system beyond what is possible to imagine and dream today.
Shadow netWorkspace is a web application system that allows a school or any type of learning community to establish an intranet with networkspaces for all members and classes. The members of the learning community have shared workspaces for collaboration; discussion boards, chat, email, and messenger systems for communication; and web-based document editors and viewers for representation. Shadow netWorkspace is freely available to anyone and all users and developers are invited to build and sustain a community that advances Shadow netWorkspace and its impact on learning.
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